Apparently, if there's a negativity, it's the inexplicable urge to antagonize arbitrarily. I never understood the Anne Hathaway thing, or the MATILDA thing, or any backlash, really. The level of emotional attachment to their fandoms in some people baffles me.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
